Word: rumoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rumor & Vigil. The U.S. replied to the Japs, and again the nation waited. Rumors flew. The radio tried hard to keep up: "This is a Reuter's report of a Domei broadcast picked up by the Chungking Radio...
...Barcelona the haggard refugee and his wife boarded the same Luftwaffe plane with the same Luftwaffe pilots who had flown them in. A few hours later they came down on a U.S. Army airfield in Austria. Rumor said that Traitor Laval had vainly offered his German pilots one million francs if they would head for Portugal. U.S. officers promptly turned Laval over to the French, who flew him to Paris...
Hollywood rumor had it that David Selznick had his eye on 50% of RKO's stock. But his eyes were big. Floyd Odlum's Atlas Corp., which owns 46% of RKO, has shown no inclination to sell even one of its 1,300,000 shares...
Moving Day. While the younger Patiño was in trouble for his peripatetic marital habits, the older Patiño picked up his traveling kit for reasons, said rumor, connected with the hue & cry over the untaxed profits of nonresident aliens in the U.S. Father Simon Ituri Patiño forsook his modest suite in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel for the rigors of the low-taxed Argentine pampas. Stopping over in New Orleans, Patiño jammed himself into a ten-room suite in the Roosevelt Hotel. In a grey suit, wearing a grey fedora and grey...
...Rumor Crop. The unexpected arrival of the U-530 started a flood of rumors. Brazilian Admiral Jorge Dodsworth Mar tins, boiling mad over the loss of the cruiser Baía (see above), said he believed "that the U-530 could have torpedoed the Baía." Another Brazilian, Admiral Dudal Teixeira, believed that the U-530 came from Japan. An Argentine reporter topped them both: he had seen a Buenos Aires provincial police report to the effect that a strange submarine had surfaced off the long, lonely, lower Argentine coast, had landed a high-ranking officer and a civilian...